Why is bullying and harassment condoned on ET?

I dunno... I get a kick out of this place. It's entertaining as #*$#*!!! LoL...

I think it's kind of an honest reflection of trading. Trading is a game of deception, a battle of big ego's, a invisible sliver of truth here and there, and etc...

If you can't handle the party, leave the house! :D

Ah well, market action picks up again Thursday/Friday... So everyone will have a break from being at each others throats on ET.
 
Quote from jcl:

I have to agree on the problem, but not on the explanations. Trolls, pretenders and "gurus" appear on all other trader forums as well. They just have far less influence there and don't generate the majority of the posts.

Here we have to wade through a swamp of insults and platitudes in every single thread. This is a problem for a commercial forum, as most potential users are driven away to competing trader forums when they notice the overall low standard and hostile atmosphere here. I can give many examples of threads where 10 trolls immediately react with insults on any user who posts or asks something useful. This is normally a sign of a dying forum.

All this is a problem of ineffective moderation. On other forums, personal insults, off topic and troll posts are prohibited, and this is strictly enforced by the moderators. Such measures would raise the standard here a lot.
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Content quality is much higher here, than other trading forums. Trade2win? Forexfactory? etc Most people there can't speak english. Good luck with that.
 
Quote from RangeTrader:

I think it's kind of an honest reflection of trading. Trading is a game of deception, a battle of big ego's, a invisible sliver of truth here and there, and etc...
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One of best assessments of ET I've seen in a long, long time. Very insightful. Someone actually gets it!!
 
Quote from Albert Cibiades:

He seems to be slow in responding. Let me help: RCG Trader, TIKITTRADER, Jack Hershey, SK0, Stepan7, the usual suspects.
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You have forgot me.

I like the forum for the rough atmosphare.
:p
 
Quote from achilles28:

Content quality is much higher here, than other trading forums. Trade2win? Forexfactory? etc Most people there can't speak english. Good luck with that.
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The only quibble I have with the above is that Trade2Win is dominated by Brits. It's a different kind of English, quaint sounding, really, but it is English.
I suspect Forexfactory might have a few more folks from non-English places, just because of its subject matter.
 
Interesting. Maybe you're right. I didn't have the patience to weed through it. Figured it was a bunch of foreigners butchering the language and took off. That said, FF has a lot more strategy ideas, journal activity.
 
once you figure out who the trolls are or who will post a reiteration of what they also post (for example: day traders always lose), you can just put them on your ignore list. suddenly, et becomes a reasonable place!
 
Quote from Baron:

Can you please list the names of the posters who you find are "repeatedly posting the same garbage"?
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For example today The Oracle in the thread Forums ›› Trading for a Living ›› Trade Management ›› Why Is The Obvious Not So Obvious? repeatedly used rude language toward me (and others), unprovoked. It seems the moderators considered that to be okay. Yesterday and today a few others joined The Oracle ganging on Jack Hershey, using rude language, denigrating him, bullying him to stop posting.
 
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